Health Professionals' Letter for the Clean Air Act

Dear member of Congress:

We, the undersigned physicians, nurses, environmental health professionals and other health professionals, urge you to protect our patients’ and communities’ health from dangerous air pollution. Please oppose any legislation or administrative actions that would block, weaken or delay
work to implement and enforce strong safeguards for healthy air.

Our patients, families, and neighbors need healthy air to breathe, particularly those who are at greater risk of getting sick or dying prematurely due to air pollution, including children, older adults, and people with asthma, COPD, and heart disease.

Thanks to the Clean Air Act, the United States has made enormous progress in cleaning up ozone and particle pollution. The American Lung Association’s 2017 “State of the Air” report found that cities across the U.S. have made continued improvement in
reducing these pollutants, with many reaching their lowest ozone levels yet. However, 125 million people still live in areas where they are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution.

Clean Air Act protections must continue to be implemented and enforced to ensure that all Americans have healthy air to breathe. In addition, evidence shows that climate change will make it harder to clean up ozone and particle pollution. The nation
must reduce the carbon, methane, and other pollutants that lead to warmer temperatures, and work to protect our communities against the many health impacts of climate change.

As health and medical professionals, we call upon you to protect the health of our patients and our communities by opposing measures that would block, weaken, or delay protections under the Clean Air Act, or other protections that reduce harmful air
pollution and protect public health from the impacts of climate change. Our communities are counting on you.

Sincerely,

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